![]() ![]() "Es ist eine Geschichte über Klassenunterschiede, Geschlechterrollen und Doppelmoral, die da im Gewand einer Liebestragikomödie erzählt wird - und zugleich eine Alltagsgeschichte der siebziger Jahre in der Türkei. ![]() Kemal’s narrative crosses decades, assembling a fascinating social world of families, friends and dependants, a rich palimpsest of the lives and mores of Istanbul’s haute bourgeoisie, their parties, dinners, funerals, business deals and raki-fuelled evenings." - Ian Irvine, Financial Times He is as accomplished an anatomist of love as Stendhal or Hazlitt in Liber Amoris. "In calm, elegant prose, Pamuk describes the various stages of Kemal’s passion: erotic obsession, jealousy, despair, the successive waves of hope and fear." The Museum of Innocence, Pamuk's first book since winning the Nobel, pulses with the hopeful melancholy of an aching heart, but gets bogged down in family dinners, cinema trips, and midday perambulations." - Keith Staskiewicz, Entertainment Weekly.) doneįairly positive - and like his evocation of time and place (specifically Istanbul) General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the authorī+ : languorous novel of a place and era, nicely (if a bit slowly. Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. ![]()
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